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It is with regret that we have decided to postpone the LinkedIn Live announcement of the Yorkshire Fastest 50 winners.

We want to continue to shine a light on business success, so when the time is right we will reconvene to announce our winners.

Here are the companies who have made the 2020 Ward Hadaway Yorkshire Fastest 50 list.

Age Partnership
Returning to the list for the second year is this retirement specialist that was established in 2004 to offer financial services for the over 50s.

Location: Leeds

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AllGas 1 Ltd
This Barnsley based company provides domestic gas metering installation, replacement, repair and associated support services throughout the UK. They last appeared in the list in 2018.

Location: Barnsley

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AMT
AMT were founded over 20 years ago and rent, lease and sell vehicles to businesses and individuals.

Location: Leeds

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Athena (UK) Limited
Athena are a groundwork and civil engineering contractor who provide a range of construction services from their Leeds base.

Location: Leeds

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BTL Group Limited
BTL are another company making a return to list after appearing in 2019. They are a global provider of assessment technology and services and their assessment platform Surpass is used internationally to create, deliver and mark over 3 million computer-based tests every year.

Location: Shipley

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CambridgeHOK Glasshouses
CambridgeHOK Glasshouses has over 60 years' experience of designing and building glasshouses for commercial growers, research and retail spaces.

Location: Brough

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Chameleon Technology
This energy technology company provides real-time smart meter data through their in- home displays, a cloud platform and connected devices and applications.

Location: Harrogate

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Chesterfield Poultry Ltd t/a Iqbal Poultry
From their processing plant in Doncaster Iqbal Poultry supply Halal poultry to retailers, wholesalers, caterers, butchers, restauranteurs and food processors throughout Europe.

Location: Doncaster

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Clayton Project Engineering
This company is the Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation arm of electrical and mechanical engineers Clayton Penistone Group, and offers its clients a full MECIA installation service.

Location: Sheffield

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Conservatory Outlet
This company manufacture, supply and install conservatories, orangeries, roofs, windows, doors and porches. They last appeared in the Fastest 50 list in 2016.

Location: Wakefield

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CSI Leasing Group
CSI lease a range of equipment, including smart phones, laptops, tablets, printers, servers and cash machines, around the world.

Location: Sheffield

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ECCO Safety Group
This worldwide company operates from Leeds in the UK and develops safety systems and emergency systems.

Location: Leeds

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EVOGO
This car-leasing company who are based in Sheffield offers flexi-rental agreements on a range of vehicles.

Location: Sheffield

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FTS Holdings UK (2015) Limited
This company manufacture and build timber framed buildings.

Location: Dewsbury

Fulcrum
Fulcrum are an independent utilities infrastructure provider whose clients include residential, industrial, commercial and mixed-use developers.

Location: Sheffield

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Galaxy Insulation and Dry Lining (Holdings) Limited
With branches in Sheffield, Leeds, St Helens, Birmingham and London, this independent insulation supplier are another business returning to the Fastest 50 list for the second year in a row.

Location: Sheffield

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Giacom
Giacom provide white label IT products and cloud services to IT professionals, who then re-sell to businesses.

Location: Hessle

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Hatch Communications
This PR consultancy have clients including Very, Crabbies, Jet2, Russel Hobbs and fellow Fastest 50 company Hisense and deliver media campaigns, events, mailers and social content.

Location: Leeds

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HECK!
Last year's fastest growing medium-sized company return to the list for a second year in a row. Founders Andrew and Debbie Keeble and team produce sausages and burgers from their farm in Kirklington that are sold online and in supermarkets.

Location: Kirklington

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Hisense UK Limited
Hisense make the list for an impressive fourth year in a row and were crowned Yorkshire's fastest growing company in 2017. They are an electronics and consumer goods manufacturer with products including TVs, refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers and ovens.

Location: Leeds

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Homes for Students
Harrogate based Homes for Students are one of the largest independent student accommodation providers in the UK with accommodation in 33 cities.

Location: Harrogate

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Impex Parts
Started by founder Stephen Burrows in 1998, Impex provide parts to the motor trade for vehicles including Ford, Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Jeep and Kia.

Location: Leeds

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IMT UK Ltd
This company supplies mohair, alpaca, camel hair and other natural fibres to spinning mills around the world from their Bingley base.

Location: Bingley

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Infinity Works
Infinity Works offer a range of services including project and product delivery, managed services, consulting, training, cloud services, organisational optimisation and design and research.

Location: Leeds

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John Good Group
John Good return to the list for a fourth time after last appearing in 2015. Their 11 subsidiaries provide a range of services including corporate travel, shipping and logistics, and warehousing and distribution.

Location: Hull

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K A Anderson (Metal Recyclers) Ltd
This metal recycler has been operating for over 40 years and handles over 2000 tonnes of material per week.

Location: Ripon

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K Rouse Civil Engineers Limited
Returning to the list after last appearing in 2016, this company completes projects including major highways schemes, large scale groundworks and drainage works and civils works.

Location: Leeds

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Kuusakoski Limited
Kuusakoski has been operating for over 100 years worldwide and offers clients a range of recycling services.

Location: Sheffield

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Loadhog
Loadhog are employee owned and supply sustainable packaging and supply chain solutions to a range of clients.

Location: Sheffield

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Logical Personnel Solutions
Logical Personnel Solutions make it a hat trick of appearances this year. The recruitment specialists work within the energy and process, construction, mechanical and electrical, logistics, facilities management, manufacturing and securities industries.

Location: Leeds

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Michael Flannery (Building Contractors) Limited
This Leeds based company carry out building and maintenance work.

Location: Leeds

Morris Metal
This scrap metal processing and recycling company last made an appearance in the Fastest 50 list in 2016.

Location: Doncaster

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Motordepot
This used car dealership was established in 2001 and has showrooms all across Yorkshire and beyond. They also appeared in last year's list.

Location: Hessle

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MRC Global
MRC Global is a leading global distributor of pipe, valve and fitting products and services to the energy and industrial markets.

Location: Bradford

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National Accident Repair Group
Launched in 2009, this company run a network of accident repair centres.

Location: Doncaster

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naughtone
This furniture manufacturer was established in 2005 and supplies a range of products to clients including Facebook, Amazon and PayPal.

Location: Knaresborough

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NIC Services Group
This facilities management company provide a range of services that includes cleaning, security and catering.

Location: Leeds

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On Line Design & Engineering Group
This group of businesses provides integrated engineering solutions throughout the Humber region and the UK.

Location: Immingham

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Peter Ward Homes
This housebuilder makes the list for the third year in a row. They currently have sites across the East Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire region, including Immingham, Goole, Gilberdyke, Beverley and Skirlaugh.

Location: Beverley

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Portland Investment Group
This holding company operates Portland Training, Payco Services, My Job Hub and Dutton Recruitment. They are another businesses returning to the Fastest 50 list for the second year in a row.

Location: Sheffield

Resimac Ltd
This business manufacture and supply repair materials and coatings to the oil and gas, petrochemical, marine, paper and pulp, water, power generation and chemical sectors.

Location: Thirsk

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RF Landscape Products
RF Landscape are importers and distributors of natural stone paving and railway sleepers. They make the Fastest 50 list for a second time.

Location: Goole

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Salzgitter Mannesmann UK Limited
Based in Harrogate, Salzgitter is a steel importer and distributer and are the official representative and agency for Germany's second largest steel producer Salzgitter AG.

Location: Harrogate

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SCX Special Projects
This engineering company works with clients in the nuclear and defence, aerospace, manufacturing, stadia and kinetic architecture, and energy and utilities sectors.

Location: Sheffield

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Sheridan Fabrications Ltd
Sheridan are the UK's largest supplier of kitchen worktops to blue chip and independent retailers.

Location: Normanton

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SmartSearch
SmartSearch make it for the third year in a row. They provide anti money laundering searches and verifications to law firms, accountancy practices, estate agents, financial advisors, banks, insurers and stockbrokers.

Location: Ilkley

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Techbuyer
Techbuyer buy, refurb and sell data centre equipment, including servers, memory and storage.

Location: Harrogate

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The Ashcourt Group
Back in the list after appearing in 2019, this company began as a student accommodation provider in 1996 and now also has divisions in aggregates, civil engineering, plant hire, construction, concrete, highways, logistics, fuels, waste management, software and homes.

Location: Hull

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Torsion Group
Torsion Group were crowned Yorkshire's fastest growing business overall last year and are back to defend their crown. They build student accommodation, care homes and housing and have further offices in Manchester and Coventry.

Location: Leeds

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Yorkare Homes Limited
This Brough based care home provider is family owned and has over 30 years of experience operating care homes.

Location: Brough

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Small business – turnover between £1m – £10m

Medium business – turnover between £10m – £30m

Large business – turnover over £30m

The companies in this list have been selected as the fastest growing profit-making, private, regional companies, based on turnover growth.

Information has been compiled using data which is publicly available at Companies House of UK listed companies and independently verified.

The average turnover growth has been assessed on a percentage increase based on the difference between turnover figures filed for the last three years.

To qualify, companies must be trading entities and have turnover in excess of £1m in the last three years of filed accounts, which are up to date as at 30 November 2019. Companies must also have made profits in each of the past three years’ accounts. Companies must have filed new accounts since last years awards.

Private limited companies which are subsidiaries of listed companies do not qualify.

Subsidiaries of foreign-controlled companies have been accepted if they have headquarters or a decision-making function in the region.

Ward Hadaway and the Yorkshire Post do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions.